By Nicki Richesin, The Children’s Book Review
Published: January 30, 2012
Agents et Voyageurs Français au Maroc, 1530-1660 (in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1911), by Henry Castries (stable link)
...Al-Qods Al-Shareef: A Study of the Holy Islamic City, Its History, Geography, Economic and Social Development From the Ancient to the Present Time, by Shawqi Sha'ath and Lahcen Haddad, trans. by Abderrahmane Halla (HTML at ISESCO)
...Advanced Antenna Theory (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1952), by S. A. Schelkunoff (page images at HathiTrust)
...An Algorithm for Constructing Lyapunov Functions (EJDE monograph #8, 2007), by Sigurdur Freyr Hafstein (PDF with commentary at ams.org)
...In the mid-noughties, Héloïse Goodley was in her mid-twenties, toiling away at a high-flying City job with all of the associated perks – top salary, big bonuses and 18-hour working days.
...Angela Carter liked to make an entrance. Susannah Clapp, now a drama critic, first saw her when she herself was working in a makeshift office in 1979-80, helping to launch the London Review of Books. She hoped to coax Carter into contributing.
...In retrospect, it was unlikely that Hans Fallada (1893-1947) would ever make it to the age of 53; as his biographer Jenny Williams notes, "he lived more lives than one, clawing his way back each time... until his body was no longer able".
...Algerian Memories: A Bicycle Tour over the Atlas to the Sahara (London: T. Fisher Unwin, ca. 1895), by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
...A Jewish View on Segregation (Greenwood, MS: Association of Citizens' Councils, ca. 1956) (at digilib.usm.edu)
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